James BaldwinHas writing ever changed your life? Have you wondered about the author of the amazing work? James Baldwin was the author of books, plays, and essays that broke literary ground. His work explored social and racial issues regarding discrimination. James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York in August 2, 1924 to Emma Berdis Jones and an unknown father. His stepfather was David Baldwin, a Baptist preacher and a factory worker. Baldwin grew up with an abusive father and a poor family with eight siblings. He wrote and edited the school magazine at his middle school, Frederic Douglass Junior High, at the age of 11. At the ages of 14 through 16, Baldwin was a Pentecostal preacher at Pentecostal Church, delivered by the difficulties of life, as well as his abusive stepfather, who was also a preacher. At the age of 15, a running buddy, Emile Capouya, recommended the young Baldwin to meet Beauford Delaney, an American modernist painter. Delaney became Baldwin’s mentor, living proof that African-American artists exist and that he could become one himself. You might be wondering what Baldwin achieved in young adulthood as he matured into the revolutionary writer he became. After attending high school, Baldwin started a string of ill paid jobs, self-study, but earned a literary apprenticeship in New York City. Around the age of 20, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village, New York a popular home of African American artists and writers. While in New York, he befriended Richard Wright, a fellow African-American writer. At the age of 21, Baldwin landed a fellowship through Wright. He started to publish his first essays and short stories (ex: The Nation, Partisan Review, and Commentary). Three years later, at the age of 24, Baldwin moved to Paris on another fellowship. His personal life was lonely. He once loved Lucien Happersberg, a Swiss artist that he lived with while he stayed in Switzerland. He was single and had no children. His personal hobbies included...

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"For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness." (61)
This particular passage was very striking to me, because it showed that the narrator finally realized that Sonny had a story too. He realizes that Sonny has suffered, but he has also triumphed many times, and in many ways. The narrator had a blanketing view of Sonny, in which Sonny could never be successful at anything. While Sonny is playing he tells his brother that they are more alike than they know, and that they both have the same story, just with different details. The brothers have finally found a bond, a common thread, and that is one of the most important things that brothers can...

...As a man of faith, JamesBaldwin led a life different from his beliefs. An openly gay black man, he became a spokesmen condemning discrimination of gays and the Civil Rights of blacks. Nevertheless, Baldwin's attributes as a writer are undeniable. Even the confused of souls serve the purpose of design; spiritually speaking. Oddly enough Jimmy was the epitome, or at least a constant advocate, of universal love and brotherhood. Baldwin, in his lifetime, was able to effect a large population through his works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays. The eyes of not only Blacks but also Whites where wide open to the issues of the times thorough this man's creative articulation and imagination, bring his life to the world. James Baldwin's personal life, in some ways, are revealed in writings throw the promise of a transparent sexual utopia grounded in a healing unveiling of a serenely accepted identity. Whether in terms homophobic or racist, or anti-homophobic or anti-racist (rarely, though more often with the former than with the latter, do the poles of either of these oppositions come together), critics have dwelt on a transcendence defined as a coming to terms with one's identity. This transcendence relies on the transparency of revelation in the text and the assertion of this transparency's liberatory potential, regardless of whether or not such liberation is a term of approbation. Such a reading allows "race" and...

..."The truth about the past is not that it is too brief, or too superficial, but only that we, having turned our faces so resolutely away from it, have never demanded from it what it has to give," wrote JamesBaldwin in his essay "A Question of Identity," published in The Price of the Ticket.
JamesBaldwin (1924-1987), the internationally acclaimed writer who wrote brilliantly and sometimes bitterly about what it meant to be human in the 20th century in books that topped bestsellers lists and who won a Eugene Saxton Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the French Legion of Honor, was a supremely distinguished writer, something many of us know and something some of the essays in JamesBaldwin Now state and in certain cases explain why and how; other essays in the book try to claim him for narrow social categories and current, transient political viewpoints — they take from him less than he has to give.
James Baldwin’s values were courage, fairness, honesty, compassion, the importance of knowing humanity, reality, and tenderness; and he looked for ambiguity, complexity, and recognition of human pain in conversation, art, and politics, in the belief that these were not only intrinsically interesting but led to the possibility of wisdom, healing, and community.Baldwin — no separatist — had close lasting friendships with women, personal friends like Orilla Miller and Mary...

...We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks Coffee.
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Case Study: Starbucks’ Structure
Cynthia Duff
MGT330: Management for Organizations
Instructor: James Worsley
October 13, 2014
Case Study: Starbucks’ Structure
Starbucks Coffee, we all know the name and most love the coffee and atmosphere it brings to our daily lives. Starbucks started out like most organizations a small coffee shop in 1971 in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market and grew. This small shop started out as a single owner who the employees answered to which is known as departmentalization by function and has now grown to be divided by territories known as geographic regions. This fortune 500 company is not a stranger to economic hard times, in 2008 and 2009 Starbucks closed over 600 stores. The organization went thru a restructuring period and created new job descriptions, formed departmentalization, the leadership looked at if they should centralize power and decision-making or decentralize the operation and what organizational configuration would best fit their mission statement.
Creating a job description and job specification for a Barista coffee maker that best suites the mission statement for Starbucks is no easy task. A job is a task that your employer is asking you to do. A coffee barista has many to tasks thru out the shift that will add up to be her job. A “precise job descriptions provide workers with clarity regarding which tasks they are and are not assigned to do. Well-written job specifications enhance the odds that the...

...JamesBaldwin Annotated Bibliography
As I shall show in the paper that follows, a quest for family stability and the ability of self-
expression through his gift of communication characterized James Baldwin’s childhood;
as JamesBaldwin developed into an adult, he used his command of language and dedication to
his craft to transfer his life’s experiences to the written page and bring his civil rights journey
into his writings.
August 2, 1924 turned out to be a very eventful day at Harlem Hospital in Harlem, New York
when soon to be renowned African American novelist, essayist, play right, poet, and civil rights
activist was born fatherless to Emma Berdis Jones. This epic writer’s name was James Arthur
Jones. Three short years after his birth, Emma Jones married David Baldwin a migrant a laborer
and Pentecostal preacher. David Leeming informs us that JamesBaldwin was born into a very
poverty stricken life filled with a stepfather with a very abrasive outlook on life (1)
James Campbell notes that some of the early influences in young James Baldwin’s life were
his stepfather, church, and his junior high and high school teachers. Baldwin remembers his
father “locked-up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul including his children and
his long silences...

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Is James Hoban the best Irish born architect ever? I will let you decide after you read his story. James Hoban was born in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1758 in a small house. His catholic parents worked as servants in Desart Court which was a grand mansion. Early on in his life he was disadvantaged because of the anti-Catholic Penal law.[1] The law stipulated Hoban was not allowed to go to school but he still managed to go to the Royal Dublin Society where he took architecture classes. Unfortunately, he was not able to land a job in Ireland. When the American revolutionary war ended, he decided to move to the United-States.
At first he lived in Charleston, South Carolina where he built the first South Carolina State House and the Charleston Theater. Wanting wanted more opportunities and being able to build something bigger, Hoban decided to move to Philadelphia. As soon as he settled there he put an ad in the paper saying "Any gentleman who wishes to build in an elegant style."(Heritage, p.38). Then he helped build the first Bank of America. He was not fully credited for that project because he had to share it with Samuel Blodgett who helped design it. A major event in James Hoban’s life happened when he met the first American president, George Washington. Having met Washington did not bring anything great to his career until the President got fed up with French architect...

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In this paper, I will draw attention to a few of the numerous films within this sub-genre and examine the process of the entire James Bond series. In a different view of this series, some diehard James Bond fans from a discussion board think to a certain extent that Bond films are spy spoofs and cannot be taken too seriously. James Bond films are a magnificent interpretation of the world of a spy. The creators of Bond aim to make the world of espionage appealing to the viewer instead of making it closer to reality, which would be more boring. Real spies don’t have invisible cars, do such extravagant stunts and put their lives in such danger. Real spies do most of their work sitting at a desk doing research. James Bond films exaggerate all the life threatening duties that sometimes come with being a spy. "I would not really call them spoofs or parodies. More definable as just a bit over the top,"...